Hidden in Plain Sight

Spooked

KQED and Snap Studios

Chiller, Performing Arts, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Halloween, Thriller, Paranormal, Spooky, Supernatural, Personal Journals, Leisure, Arts, Horror, Fall, Mystery, Wonder, Adventure, Scary, Culture

4.6 • 15.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes we don’t need to look under the bed, or inside of the closet. Sometimes, the monster isn’t hidden at all.

STORIES

Come Play with Me

When Paulette’s daughter starts talking to an imaginary friend, she thinks it’s normal a childhood rite until the day she hears the friend talk back.

Thank you, Paulette, for sharing your story with Spooked!

Produced by Eliza Smith, original score by Leon Morimoto

The Hotel Beaumont

Dave Beilfuss works in mortuaries and retirement homes, but he doesn’t believe in ghosts. But he starts to question everything when he moves into an old-age home and a hospice center called the Hotel Beaumont.

Thank you, Dave Beilfuss and Holly Evans for sharing your story with us.

Produced by Liz Mak, original score by Leon Morimoto

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Transcript

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0:00.0	Snap Studios.
0:05.0	When you're a little kid playing hide and go see, you discovered that sometimes, the best place to hide is in plain sight.
0:17.0	Twisting to spoot, stay tuned. Stay true.
0:47.0	From KQED and PRX, you've crossed over to spooked. When I was little, and my grandmother had lost most of her sight, she would sometimes call to me. And I would come, sit with her, read to her, from her Bible, from the Church Bulletin, from the Detroit Free Press.
0:59.0	Other times, I tell her what her characters were wearing on all my children,
1:05.0	and who looked like they were up to no good.
1:09.0	She told me, she could only see motion mostly.
1:15.0	Sometimes the light and the dark, but mostly just the dark.
1:21.0	And although she could no longer see she turned toward me when I spoke
1:29.8	looked me in my eyes and I can see her eyes.
1:35.0	Alert, searching knowing blind eyes.
1:40.0	Once she called me and I did not come I watched her instead watched her call me to her and
1:50.8	I sat silent on the stairs, not moving, not even breathing as she waited and waited did not come.
2:09.0	Never, ever, ever, have I tasted such tear,
2:17.0	is when she casually turned her head toward mine
2:22.0	and those blind eyes look directly at me.
2:27.0	From the snap judgment's underground layer, my name is Phil Washington.
2:32.0	You can see whatever you want to see.
2:35.0	Stuke starts.
2:39.0	Now. We're not going to We begin.
3:07.0	Paulette's little daughter, she has an imaginary friend.
3:10.0	You know, like the kid to do, what could possibly go wrong?
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